Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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